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This site and it’s blog are an experiment – something I needed to get off my chest. They might be taken down, or never updated again. I leave it to become whatever it grows into, or maybe it’ll stagnate and disappear.

Graffuturism is a word that surfaced from my subconscious recently while drawing a sketch, but it is a term that has fascinated me and remained on my mind since I picked up a spray can over twenty years ago. Today it attracts me again because I love that it is poetic, unique and without a dictionary definition, therefore suggesting something that really is unexplainable: I can show you when I see it, I can grasp the forms of it, but I leave it up to you to explain or define.

The Artist will always be beyond a Label. So I guess this is an attempt to define something, an aesthetic, a common string that some of us graffiti artists, painters, even photographers share. A collection of viewing something that is only a portrait of decades of progression and regression.

I hope you enjoy and contribute to the forming of an attempt to define Chaos through the eyes of a Graffiti Futurist like myself.

One of the best sites I’ve seen for up to date cutting edge new wave graffiti. I love the abstract movement on the go and the step away finally from the new york standard of graffiti. I have loaved graff since the early 90s , so if you would like any of my images please let me know!!!!

Hi
i discovered your blog a few weeks ago (i dont even remember how). I wanna say something good about your blog, but when i read all the posted comment up there, i think everything was already said. So i would just say THANK YOU for your sharp selection.

You always have seemed to amaze me so creative, smart, and addicting because over the years I have had the pleasure to see your work grow there are no word to describe it I agree its just a constant live, learn, enjoy, and never forget it type of feeling that art is just a part of us yearning to get out! Glad you did it now its time for you to do what you truly love. Congrats and best wishes!

Thanks to this site, i discovered that some street artists are talented enough to be exhibited amoung the most famous modern and contemporary abstract painters. I think using the term graffitis to define such amazing pieces of art is pejorative. They are definitely the graphic paintings of the future. I only regret that sculpture has not yet found a distinguished role in this new artistic movement.ASK

Great works and commitment to the dialogue of contemporary graffiti inspired art. We need to continue to share these links and stories about us and our time. This is just the start of a huge transformation towards more mature and experimental works that go beyond the cartoons and vector graphics the culture is consumed by. Mare139 ROC- Return Our Culture 2011

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wow im really glad i found this website!…. ive been trying to find a place that shows more design within graffiti…. really interesting and unique!…. especially the fact that its not your typical same ol, over used graffiti styles!

First i would thank you for puttin up such a great site.
Our culture needs to places like this, and as writer from the last 80′s i must say that so many times our mission has been misunderstood or just ignored.
Your concept is a look forward but deeply rooted in our past, very cool.
How can i share some stuff with you?
Thank you so much, all the best, Rae.

Great site ,i really like the term ”graffuturism” you invented, that’s like a natural evolution of graffiti abstraction , kind of a new wave of ”traditional” graffiti. Thanks for the good documentation of this forward graffiti ”trend” called graffuturism. The creation of the term is great as well as the site. Great stuff here.
I would like to contribute.
Peace .
Lune82

came across this amazing website about a year ago. The “graffuturism” really captures the thing about abstract nature and this new wave of crazy graffiti styles of the contemporary times. I ,myself, along with my crew LAC, also partake in this crazy new trend of abstractive letter manipulation style. We :LAC, are a graffiti crew from Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), hoping to break apart from the traditional graffiti style and trying to create some crazy new stuffs. But with that being said, I still paint “traditional” wild style pieces from time to time.
And if possible, we would like to contribute our works to the site and it would mean a huge opportunity for us.

Peace and blessings and thanks for providing such a great forum for amazing works. I too wanted to share with you my work and also invite you to come see what my friends and I have up at UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery until March 9th. please let me know if I can send you a press release. and thank you again, the movement is amazing and has some really good hearted people creating amazing art.

Ce que j’en pense ? That In my Artistic research, lost in my little town, I finally foud Graffutursim on my road. I feel lik home in this movement .
thanks for gatherind so many artist under a global spirit. I feel less alone. I’m far from a real professional work, but your guiding light makes a target !

As a former French graffiti artist that began in the late 90s, I converted to painting on canvas over the years and feel particularly close to the Graffuturism artistic trend. Contrary to what the “street art” movement and “post graffiti” may unfortunately suggest, I do not regard Graffuturism as an artistic current higher than the original graffiti movement or supposedly more intellectual but simply as a possible continuity…

Really interesting & informative blog! I’m working with David Gerena right now, a 1980s NYC graffiti artist, who’s creating works on canvas in Figurative Graffiti, and am catching up on where graffiti’s gone since the 80s (how it’s developed in different directions), and the context of the different styles.

Poesia, totally enjoy this site and the conversations it enables. I particularly like the longer articles and watching the words gather around this idea of graffuturism. Can you or anyone else point to other places (web wise, I’m not inclined to mobility) where this kind of talk is happening?
Im not going to locate my practice, it doesn’t matter. But check out my boy Atune__ on Insta and faze book he’s doing the hard yards and kicking goals.

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